Preparing to Use Soft 3D for Windows Full-Clone VMs

When you enable Soft 3D, the ESXi host uses software 3D graphics rendering.

To support software 3D rendering, a pool must meet these additional requirements:

• The virtual machines (VMs) must be virtual hardware version 8 or later, and be running Windows.
• You must set the 3D Renderer option to Software. See Video RAM Configuration Options for the 3D Renderer.